IT Business Analyst

Overview
As our

• This is an onsite position in Omaha, NE
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As our IT Business Analyst
, you will be responsible for acting as a critical liaison between the business and technical teams, translating business needs into clear functional specifications and ensuring software solutions meet high-quality standards. You will gather requirements, design validation strategies, and execute testing to verify deliverables, including writing scripts as part of Test-Driven Development (TDD). This role requires strong collaboration with IT and business stakeholders to ensure project outcomes align with business objectives.

Additionally, this role will serve as a subject matter expert, supporting technical teams in understanding functional requirements.

• This is an onsite position in Omaha, NE
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• Collaborate with business stakeholders to elicit, document, and refine detailed business and functional requirements, translating business needs into clear functional specifications
• Work with the technical team to produce design specifications, including process flows, screen layouts, and database requirements, while supporting development by clarifying business logic and ensuring alignment with requirements
• Partner with IT Product Managers to define project scope, milestones, and deliverables, and assist in managing timelines and resources effectively
• Support programming staff throughout the development stage, clarifying business logic and ensuring deliverables meet agreed-upon requirements
• Communicate with IT and business stakeholders to maintain transparency around project scope, status, and deliverables, serving as a subject matter expert for functional requirements
• Propose and evaluate solutions to business problems, contributing to process improvements that enhance efficiency, effectiveness, and quality
• Monitor and analyze validation results, providing timely feedback to development teams and assisting with root cause analysis for rapid resolution of issues
• Develop and execute validation strategies, including scripts as part of Test-Driven Development (TDD), and perform functional, integration, and regression testing to ensure deliverables meet business and functional requirements
• Develop and maintain automated test scripts or frameworks as needed to support efficient regression validation and integration testing within the development pipeline and reducing manual testing efforts
• Ensure all requirements and validation activities align with Agile development standards, supporting the delivery of high-quality software solutions
• Abide by all policies and procedures of Oriental Trading Company
• Maintain regular and predictable attendance
• Work requires in-person collaboration among colleagues and contractors

• Performs other related duties and projects as assigned

• Ability to obtain and maintain a solid understanding of business process flows and their relationship to IT solutions
• Ability to translate conceptual solutions into meaningful documentation, including user stories, specifications, data flow diagrams, and process models
• Ability to assess current customer, enterprise, and industry trends and relate them to business performance
• Strong organizational and time-management skills
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to articulate complex technical concepts in clear, non-technical language
• Strong collaboration skills, working effectively across business and technical teams
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office tools (Word, Excel, Visio, PowerPoint) for documentation, presentations, and analysis.

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Communications, or a related field, or equivalent combination of education and experience

• 3+ years of experience as a Software Engineer, Business Analyst, QA Engineer, or related discipline
• 2+ years of experience gathering and documenting business and functional requirements
• 1+ years of experience developing scripts as part of Test-Driven Development (TDD) to validate requirements
• Experience across the full software development lifecycle…